Vanilla Cupcakes

Delicious Vanilla Cupcakes

Hello everyone! So I made these cupcakes from two different recipes, the cake is a basic vanilla cupcake recipe using vanilla paste from the "Boutique Baking" book by Peggy Porschen. The vanilla buttercream is made just by mixing icing sugar, butter and vanilla paste together.

I made the buttercream in two slightly different shades of pink, to give the roses a little bit of depth to them.

The butterfly decorations are made from sugarpaste, mixed with sugarcel. This means that they set hard and don't go soft when you put them on the buttercream.

I finished the butterflies off by painting them with edible

lustre and added a sprinkle of glitter to the buttercream roses.

 

How to transport cupcakes (on a budget)

 

So usually I just put cupcakes in a spare food tub to transport them and just use foil barriers to try to stop them squashing each other. 

But today I had a brainwave! 

 

I decided to cut some plastic cups in half and place each cupcake in a cup. This means that each cupcake has a sturdy ring around it, preventing it from being squashed and stopping the icing getting stuck to the other cupcakes.  

                                           

The cupcakes are then easily released by popping them up from the base.                                                      

This method worked perfectly and is ideal if you don't have the money to buy an expensive cupcake carrier! 

I'm really pleased with how these turned out. I think the roses themselves could be better, but this is the first time I've used a star nozzle to create them. So I think I just need a bit more practice!

Thanks for reading!

Lemon and Raspberry Cupcakes

Summertime Treats

 

Hi again everyone! So I made these cupcakes only a couple of months ago and they are really good as a summertime treat. I used a recipe from the book "Boutique Baking" by Peggy Porschen, which my brother bought me for my birthday in May.

The main cake is a lemon sponge recipe, but with a few raspberries thrown in. Once you've baked them, you cover them in a lovely lemon syrup (just lemon and caster sugar which has been heated up to dissolve the sugar). This makes them so moist (I'm making my own mouth drool!).

The cupcakes were then topped with a cream cheese and lemon frosting (hence why its a bit runny) and a juicy raspberry. 

I love how these turned out! They look gorgeous and they taste even better! They are a good contrast of sharp and sweet. Perfect with a good cocktail.

By the way...if anyone would like any of these recipes, just contact me and I'll be happy to supply them! 

Thanks for reading!

 

 

Belated Easter Cupcakes

Chocolate and Chicks!

Hello everyone! I know, shocking isn't it?? I'm still alive! I've neglected my blog over the past few months, but haven't neglected the baking, so expect and influx of heavenly cupcakes!

So these cute little cupcakes are chocolate fudge cupcakes! A recipe I used from one of my (now numerous) baking books. The cupcake is chocolate and the icing is chocolate fudge.

I've decorated them really simply, with broken up pieces of chocolate flake for the 'nests' and mini chocolate eggs.

You can find chocolate flakes, the mini eggs and the Easter chicks in any good pound shop! So these cupcakes are really good to make if you don't have many pennies.

I was really pleased with the way they turned out! Very cute and very tasty!

Belated Happy Easter!